Biography

Jamie Matthews is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media. He was the Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Communication and Media from 2015-18 and teaches on the MA in Media and Communication.

His research interests include international communication, journalism studies, with a particular interest in disaster journalism, media framing of crises and conflict and its intersection with public opinion dynamics. Some of his recent work on media and disaster communication, terrorism and the role of media in democratic transition has been published in journals including International Communication Gazette, Asian Journal of Communication and Critical Studies on Terrorism.

Jamie’s research is international in its scope and he has recently completed a funded research project in Japan on the contribution of local media to disaster response and recovery following the 3/11 disaster. He is currently co-editing a book for Palgrave Macmillan on Media and Disaster Communities and leading a knowledge exchange project with partner institutions in Japan that evaluates how community and citizen-orientated media may support communities that are risk to prepare for disaster...

He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds a PhD in Public Communication from Bournemouth University.

Jamie welcomes PhD proposals from prospective students in any of the above areas.

Favourites

Matthews, J., 2018. Cultural otherness and disaster news: the influence of western discourses on Japan in US and UK news coverage of the 2011 Great East Japan Disaster. International Communication Gazette.

Journal Articles

Matthews, J., 2018. Cultural otherness and disaster news: the influence of western discourses on Japan in US and UK news coverage of the 2011 Great East Japan Disaster. International Communication Gazette.

Matthews, J., 2018. The right of reply: UK journalism, source use and official discourses on counterterrorism. In: de La Brosse, R. and Holt, K., eds. Journalism in a world of terrorism – terrorism in the world of journalism. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Matthews, J., 2012. Source attribution and perceptual effects. Proceedings of the ISLC 2012. International Symposium on Language and Communication:
Research Trends and Challenges, 10th-13th June 2012. ISLC, 85-96.

Conferences

Matthews, J., 2017. The relationships between local newspapers and their communities in post-disaster environments. In: Provincial Newspapers: Lessons from History. 8 September 2017 Liverpool John Moores University.

Matthews, J., 2017. The right to reply: UK journalism, sources and official discourses on counterterrorism. In: Journalism in a world of terrorism 9-11 May 2017 FOJO Media Institute, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.

Matthews, J., 2015. Media and the 2011 disaster: crisis cycle and cultural frames in US and UK press coverage. In: Media, Communications, and Japan’s 3/11 Triple Disaster 9 April 2015 Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.